Hi all,
I'm trying to install 90k on an AMD64 box. I've tried both with the x86_64 netinstall iso and the i386 iso.
In both cases, anaconda runs, but when I ask it to format the partition where I want to install Blag, it stops, the screen goes black, and the machine reboots.
Anaconda warns me that I have more than 15 partitions on sda and sdb, which is quite true, but I'm trying to put it onto sdb9, which surely should be ok. I thought it might be because there was an old Slackware on that partition, so I dd'd it full of zeros, but that didn't help.
Incidentally I would have thought that since kernels later than 2.6.28 or thereabouts can handle more than 15 partitions there should be no probs, but apparently anaconda hasn't caught up yet.
Does anyone have any ideas? Am I the only one with this problem? Thanks in advance.

Hi, and thanks for the speedy reply.
I downloaded the CD's on Friday so I think they would have the most recent kernel - 2.6.33 I think. In any case I've one or two other elderly kernels running quite happily on partitions below no 15. Slackware was 2.6.24 on the same partition. (sdb9)
EDIT According to the readme the i386cd has the 2.6.25 kernel-libre, but I don't think that is the problem. The i386 checksum and self-check were ok. The machine reboots when about 80% through formatting, and thus before anything has been installed, which makes me think it's an anaconda problem. I'll try again on another machine.

90k is based on Fedora 9, there have been no new releases for a little bit, and folk are now gathering efforts to start releasing again. There was some disruption when the sole developer quit the project, and the community has stepped in to try and co-ordinate a newer, more up to date release. 90k is therefore not a recent release, and the kernel with the install is "old". It can be upgraded after install, but is not recent upon install.

One-and-a-half-cheers!:
I've managed to get the wrong version (i386) installed on the wrong machine using the pci=nomsi kernel option.
My immediate problem now is that yum update gives an error message:

I'll try a few kernel options on the other machine later (suggestions, anyone? It's an AMD X2 4850e on a GA-MA78GM-S2H mobo, with amd 780G northbridge and amd700 s.b.)
Oh, and thanks for the info, let's hope the project goes ahead!

We are waiting for you on IRC!
Don't forget to add lvna repo during installation if you do a netinstall. Because now repo are on fsf server so libdvdcss is not in the repo but still in the default packages list.

Another half cheer, which makes three in all. It turns out the trouble was the chrome driver. Changing it to "vesa" fixed it.
Later on I'll try for an x86-64 netinstall on the othe box.
Read the thread 'Is blag dead?' while waiting for things to download. Not very encouraging when I've only just discovered Blag! I hope reports of its death are exaggerated.

Thank you, Junichirô, but I'm afraid that my lack of skills is such that I would need so much coaching that it would be easier for someone more knowledgeable to simply do the work. I'm not at all sure just what is involved in maintaining a distro, any distro, nor what is involved in the particular case of one that seeks to be 100% free. I'm maybe a bit ideologically suspect, too: I confess to having a box-full of such evil distros as Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Mandriva . . . ;-)
I have discovered though that I can manage very well without Mr Gates' software, and he seems to get by quite well without my money.

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